Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — Quotation Marks. [ARTICLE]

Quotation Marks.

Senator Beveridge, in an after-din-ner speech in Cleveland, said of a corrupt politician: "The man’s excuse is as absurd as the excuse that a certain minister offered on being convicted of plagiarism. “ 'Brethren,’ said this minister, “it is true that I occasionally borrow for my sermons, but I always acknowledge the fact in the pulpit by raising two fingers at the beginning and two at the end of the borrowed matter, thus indicating that it is quoted.”